[Tolo News] CEO of the National Unity Government (NUG) Abdullah Abdullah... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
said on Sunday at a presser after his trip to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
that "most of the Taliban's leaders are based in Pakistain."
"Taliban's trip to Pakistain is not news because they are there and carry out all their activities from there," Abdullah said in response to a journalist's question.
Regarding the government's secret peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, Abdullah said: "I don't know details over government's peace talks with Taliban in Qatar."
This comes after senior members of the Taliban's political commission based in Qatar travelled to Pakistain for discussions with security officials about possible peace talks with the Afghan government, the Guardian reported Saturday.
Reports also emerged last week that a Taliban delegation held secret talks with Afghan officials in Doha, Qatar recently and the Guardian reported that three Taliban officials left Doha on Wednesday for talks with Pakistain officials.
The Taliban said the discussions being held in Pakistain follow successful contacts made with both Afghan and US officials in recent months.
Abdullah meanwhile said that during his trip to Saudi Arabia he discussed the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and that Saudi officials "showed interest in helping Afghanistan in the grinding of the peace processor. We also talked about the peace agreement with Hekmatyar."
More than a month ago the Afghan government signed a peace agreement with
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar... who used to be known in intelligence circles as
The Most Evil Man in the Worldbut who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
's Hizb-e-Islami party.